Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
Psalm 85
Restoration of Favor
For the choir director. A psalm of the sons of Korah.
1 Lord, you showed favor to your land;(A)
you restored the fortunes of Jacob.[a](B)
2 You forgave your people’s guilt;
you covered all their sin.(C)Selah
3 You withdrew all your fury;
you turned from your burning anger.(D)
4 Return to us, God of our salvation,
and abandon your displeasure with us.(E)
5 Will you be angry with us forever?
Will you prolong your anger for all generations?(F)
6 Will you not revive us again
so that your people may rejoice in you?(G)
7 Show us your faithful love, Lord,
and give us your salvation.(H)
8 I will listen to what God will say;
surely the Lord will declare peace
to his people, his faithful ones,
and not let them go back to foolish ways.(I)
9 His salvation is very near those who fear him,
so that glory may dwell in our land.(J)
10 Faithful love and truth will join together;
righteousness and peace will embrace.(K)
11 Truth will spring up from the earth,
and righteousness will look down from heaven.(L)
12 Also, the Lord will provide what is good,
and our land will yield its crops.(M)
13 Righteousness will go before him
to prepare the way for his steps.(N)
11 And the Judeans and the Israelites
will be gathered together.(A)
They will appoint for themselves a single ruler(B)
and go up from[a] the land.
For the day of Jezreel(C) will be great.
2 Call[b] your brothers: My People
and your sisters: Compassion.
Israel’s Adultery Rebuked
2 Rebuke your mother; rebuke her.(D)
For she is not my wife and I am not her husband.(E)
Let her remove the promiscuous look from her face(F)
and her adultery from between her breasts.
3 Otherwise, I will strip her naked(G)
and expose her as she was on the day of her birth.
I will make her like a desert(H)
and like a parched land,
and I will let her die of thirst.(I)
4 I will have no compassion on her children(J)
because they are the children of promiscuity.
5 Yes, their mother is promiscuous;
she conceived them and acted shamefully.(K)
For she thought, “I will follow my lovers,(L)
the men who give me my food and water,
my wool and flax, my oil and drink.”(M)
6 Therefore, this is what I will do:
I will block her[c] way(N) with thorns;(O)
I will enclose her with a wall,
so that she cannot find her paths.(P)
7 She will pursue her lovers but not catch them;(Q)
she will look for them but not find them.
Then she will think,
“I will go back to my former husband,(R)
for then it was better for me than now.”(S)
8 She does not recognize(T)
that it is I who gave her the grain,(U)
the new wine, and the fresh oil.
I lavished silver and gold on her,
which they used for Baal.
9 Therefore, I will take back my grain in its time(V)
and my new wine in its season;
I will take away my wool and linen,
which were to cover her nakedness.
10 Now I will expose her shame(W)
in the sight of her lovers,
and no one will rescue her from my power.
11 I will put an end to all her celebrations:(X)
her feasts,(Y) New Moons,(Z) and Sabbaths—
all her festivals.
12 I will devastate her vines and fig trees.(AA)
She thinks that these are her wages
that her lovers have given her.
I will turn them into a thicket,(AB)
and the wild animals will eat them.(AC)
13 And I will punish her for the days of the Baals,(AD)
to which she burned incense.(AE)
She put on her rings and her jewelry(AF)
and followed her lovers,
but she forgot me.(AG)
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Israel’s Adultery Forgiven
14 Therefore, I am going to persuade her,
lead her to the wilderness,(AH)
and speak tenderly to her.[d]
15 There I will give her vineyards back to her(AI)
and make the Valley of Achor[e](AJ)
into a gateway of hope.
There she will respond as she did
in the days of her youth,(AK)
as in the day she came out of the land of Egypt.
Wind and Waves Obey Jesus
22 One day he and his disciples got into a boat,(A) and he told them, “Let’s cross over to the other side of the lake.”(B) So they set out, 23 and as they were sailing he fell asleep. Then a fierce windstorm came down on the lake; they were being swamped and were in danger. 24 They came and woke him up, saying, “Master, Master, we’re going to die!”
Then he got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waves. So they ceased, and there was a calm.(C) 25 He said to them, “Where is your faith?”
They were fearful and amazed, asking one another, “Who then is this?(D) He commands even the winds and the waves, and they obey him!”
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